Jews and people of Jewish appearance are kept under close surveillance and their mail is checked when they travel on German vessels.
This practice is admitted by the Stuermer in an article describing the methods used by Nazi sailors on German boats.
The article relates how a Jew, Herbert Kronheimer, boarded a German vessel at Lebito, Angola, as a first-class passenger. He was accompanied by another Jew named Breitenfeld. From the moment the travellers said good-bye to their friends on the shore–among whom was a German vice-Consul – they were kept under close watch, and Nazi members of the crew even photographed them without their knowledge.
Mr. Kronheimer mailed letters from the port of Duala to a German girl in Hamburg, members of the crew reported, giving the girl’s name and address. The article states that the girl is an “Aryan.” It severely criticises the German Vice-Consul who saw Mr. Kronheimer off.
The members of the crew who reported this case to the “Stuermer” recount how, when the vessel was on the high seas, they put copies of the Stuermer in the reading room in order that the Jewish passengers should know how they were regarded by the others.
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